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acculturatione: process of learning norms, beliefs, and behavioral expectations of a group other than one's own group.
belief: a theory accepted a true by a culture.
cultural assimilation: process in which individuals from a minority group are absorbed by the dominant culture and take on the characteristics of the dominant culture.
cultural competence: acquisition of knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of a culture that facilitates provision of culturally appropriate health care.
culture diversity: differences among groups of people that result from ethnic, racial, and cultural variables.
culture imposition: tendency to impose one's own beliefs, values, and patterns of behavior on individuals from another culture.
culture: dynamic network of knowledge, beliefs, patters of behavior, ideas, attitudes, values, and norms that are unique to a particular group of people.
dominant culture: group whose values prevail within a society.
ethnic group: people within a culture who share characteristics based on race, religion, color, national origin, or language.
ethnicity: an individual's identification of self as part of an ethnic group.
ethnocentrism: an assumption of cultural superiority and an inability to accept the ways of another culture.
minority group: ethnic, cultural, racial, or religious group that constitutes less than a numerical majority of the population.
race: a grouping of people based on biological similarities; members of a racial group have similar physical characteristics, such as blood group; facial features; and color of skin, hair, and eyes.
racism: discrimination directed toward individuals or groups who are perceived to be inferior.
stereotyping: expectation that all people within the same racial, ethnic, or cultural group act alike and share the same beliefs and attitudes.
subcultural: social group within a culture that has distinctive characteristics, such as patterns of behavior or beliefs.
values: principles and standards that have meaning and worth to an individual, family, group, community, or culture.
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